Abstract
This article focusses on regulatory autonomy in the context of Article XXIV of GATT navigating issues which touch and concern the internal and external liberalisation requirements and their implication for core non-discrimination principles, the Enabling Clause, mutual recognition agreements, and specific disciplines such as trade remedies, SPS measures, TBT measures, and Article XX exceptions. The article proceeds on the premise that these areas of trade coverage offer significant scope for the realisation of regulatory autonomy for countries to fashion their domestic trade policy agenda consistent with their developmental requirements, but questions whether the current state of the jurisprudence is amenable to that development policy space, and suggests avenues for future on-going research on the implications of WTO-plus and WTO-minus provisions in RTAs and under the Enabling Clause for such domestic regulatory policy space.
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Beckford, Dr. Delroy S.
(2024)
"Regulatory Autonomy and Article XXIV of GATT,"
Indian Journal of International Economic Law: Vol. 15:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
DOI: 10.55496/PKLA4358
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/ijiel/vol15/iss1/3
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.55496/PKLA4358